Jeff Nichols, the director of “Midnight Special,” “Take Shelter,” “Mud,” and “Loving,” is set to direct … “A Quiet Place Part III”? What? Deadline is reporting that Paramount has brought on Nichols to write and direct the third film in the “A Quiet Place” franchise. Actor-filmmaker John Krasinski helmed the first two. The plot and title of the film are still unknown, and Deadline can’t even guarantee that this film is actually a sequel and not some sort of spinoff. Regardless, Nichols coming into a franchise basically means that the opportunities to make personal arthouse films these days is scant to none. I’m not surprised. The COVID-19 pandemic has transitioned the movie industry into an alternate universe.
“A Quiet Place Part II” hasn’t even been released yet, its original March 20 release plagued by, well, a plague. Its new release date is now slated for April 23, 2021. The third film from Nichols will hit theaters, or maybe VOD, sometime in 2022.
Brady Corbet's “The Origin of the World,” his X-Rated epic about "Northern California’s economy" in the 1970s epic, has now started production in South Africa under the working title “SALT FLATS.”